It is indeed confusing, John. I’d say you gain little (if anything at all) with MLO unless you have a FULLY WIRELESS mesh system. But in any case, you can use the router’s SDN (Guest Network Pro) feature to create multiple SSIDs of whichever band(s) you want for segmenting your network. That takes a bit of time to set up to your liking but it works.
]]>I already did and you’ll see it in the performance charts of newer reviews, such as this one, Edward. I can’t afford to re-review all hardware when I review a new one. Most important: Don’t put too much hope and expectation on MLO—more here.
]]>i currently set up individual bands 2.4, and 5…I’m guessing if you do that you will loose MLO. BUT love control over what bands the clients connect to?
use smart connect option?? I am hesitant with this as I like control a
and had drop issues in the past.
or use MLO option?? is this just an enhanced smart connect option? will my 2.4 clients still connect? will this option cause issues.
it’s very confusing.
]]>There are all here, Ezra, or this list on the best of them. As for the number of devices, check out this post on routers.
]]>This setting is part of QoS, Chris, and not all routers have it seperated nor do all vendors call it SQM. It seems you’ve been reading too much marketing nonsense. 🙂
]]>Because during the first round of reviews, the routers didn’t have firmware that support Wi-Fi 7 and there was no Wi-Fi 7 clients or the clients didn’t have the software driver that support the standard. Etc. More here.
]]>Maybe I’m misunderstanding but why would you need to retest them everytime a new wifi7 router comes out? Just seeing their be 6ghz result is enough, to compare with other routers’ be 6ghz results
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